School Violence On the Rise or Myth

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School Violence On the Rise or Myth

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Talking to people on another board on a topic which originally started out with the posting of the principle keeping information about gay couples in her school.

Many of the people on the board are my age or older (40+) and tend to be conservative. The argument has changed quite a bit and has come around to the concern about school violence.

I know that your likelihood of being involved in a Columbine type shooting is less than being struck by lightning. What I am curious is if someone has seen actual figures on school violence?
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine

"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."
Ecclesiastes 9:5 (KJV)
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